Vibrations in a Growing Nonlinear Chain

A one-dimensional chain describing the linear statistical increment of growing homogeneous atoms was arbitrarily built and investigated using an energy potential function. The analytic form of the considered potential has two exponential terms which describes chaotic behavior when the chain was excited. In order to investigate the dynamics of statistical attachment of individual atoms in the slender gold chain, the total energy of the entire system was changed by increasing the kinetic energy upon increment of homogeneous atoms in the chain. This resulted in a corresponding increase of the total energy in the system. On the other hand, the potential energy of the system on increment of homogeneous atoms equals zero, because the distance between corresponding atoms equals to the molecular distance (minimum potential distance). We considered the dynamical system with linear damping and without linear damping. \\ Different initial points were investigated to obtain trends of vibration that includes chaotic and regular oscillations. At some initial point(s), the attached atom experiences an infinite jump which means it falls off the nonlinear slender chain and the chain was broken. The interpretation of this phenomenon means the gold chain will result into an unstable nanostructure. We compared the numerical simulation of the system with different built-in ordinary differential equation solvers of various computer algebra software. Numerical simulation were carried out by plotting the system of growing atoms' displacement against time. The system of linearly attached atoms were numerically simulated and inferences were stated from the study. In all cases considered, we inferred that amplitude of oscillation significantly increased at the end of the chain (terminal point) as compared to the initial point the oscillation started.